“Rebecca Makkai is one of our best writers—witty and precise, brilliant and compassionate — and every one of these stories contains all the depth and heartache of a doorstop-sized novel. I’ve been waiting for years for this book.”

Molly Antopol» author of The Un-Americans, longlisted for the National Book Award

About The Author

Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Hundred-Year House, winner of the Chicago Writers Association’s Novel of the Year award, and The Borrower, a Booklist Top Ten Debut which has been translated into eight languages. Her short story collection, Music for Wartime, will appear in June of 2015. Her short fiction was chosen for The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), and appears regularly in journals like Harper’s, Tin House, and New England Review. The recipient of a 2014 NEA fellowship, Makkai will be visiting faculty this fall at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.